Thread: It's time for a unified ebook format and the end of DRM
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Old 02-10-2012, 04:11 PM   #42
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Originally Posted by Sil_liS View Post
O'Reilly doesn't print novels and nonfiction and pdf sales are still going down.
"Sales will be low" is not the same as "there's no need to support this filetype." The noncommercial uses for PDFs are huge (or at least, the use of unsellable PDFs), and the combination of that, and the few markets that won't work without them, will demand that devices support them unless something else with a fixed layout replaces PDF.

I don't think the future of ebooks is going to be "there's no way to read fixed-layout content," and right now, that format is PDF much more than cbr/cbz, which don't support search at all.
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